Boys Basketball Roundup: North, South, Plymouth fall

Leading 24-21 after the first quarter, the Sheboygan North boys basketball team rallied from a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit but came up just short in falling at Green Bay East 86-80 on Friday night.

Davis Larson had a team-high 29 points for the Golden Raiders (13-3, 8-3 Fox River Classic Conference) and finished 10-of-14 from the free throw line. North was 15-of-24 from the charity stripe.

Also for North, Nick Rudolph had 12 points — all on 3’s — and teammate Zach Hasenstein added 10 points.

Green Bay East (8-9, 7-6 FRCC) finished 19-of-24 on free throws. The Red Devils led 53-44 at halftime and 71-57 after the third quarter.

“They got us back on our heels,” North coach Tom Desotell said, noting his team was “never able to regain our footing and come back” after falling behind.

Jared Reklaitis scored a team-high 15 points and TJ Pitsch pitched in seven more, but Sheboygan South couldn’t get enough offense to keep pace all game with one of the state’s best boys programs.

De Pere, ranked ninth in the most recent Associated Press Division 1 state poll, held South to just three points in the second quarter and kept churning out points in the second half to net the Fox River Classic Conference win.

Leading 28-23 at halftime, host Plymouth was held to 12 points in the second half for the loss.

“Our offense stalled in the second half, we just didn’t get the ball in the basket enough,” Plymouth coach Butch Cain said. “I don’t think we passed as well or move without the ball as well in the second half as we did in the first half. We had some good looks, just didn’t find the bottom of net.”